Resumo de The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

In his novel, the Great Gatsby, the narrator, Nick Caraway, himself a minor character, tells the story of Jay Gatsby and his great love, Daisy, during a time of lost reality in the USA after WWI. For Gatsby, from a background of great poverty and becoming extremely successful within a few years after the War, entering the upper echelons of the frivolous New York society and its lascivious life style, this is a dream of new limitations for all mankind, but in the final account an illusion of a 'lost society'. His parties are legendary and outshine all other society events. His house and the background to his person remain closed and mysterious to all outsiders. But Jay has to walk this path if he wants to see once again his great love Daisy, who by now is married to Tom Buchanan and has a child with him.Daisy is blindet by the aura of Jay, not only because of his parties. The bristling, emotional situation of the actions and events contribute to it. Jay Gatsby secretely hopes that his great love from years back will find a realistic ending by Daisy leaving Tom and marrying him, Jay. Indeed the two do come into closer contact, it seems. But deep inside the gap between the formerly poor man and the always wealthy wife and daughter from a reputable, conservative house looms larger than ever. The more the two lovers find each other, the more they oppose each other. Daisy refuses to make the decision to leave her abusive husband, who attempts to influence her by pointing to the questionable business deals of Gatsby.The morally unacceptable scandal, connected with a possible divorce, becomes an unacceptable hurdle. Barriers that seemed to have fallen during those years are still like a stigma lodged firmer than ever in the minds of the people. Out of an outer, hypocritical new tolerance develops an inner intolerance of now denied social norms and expectations. When Daisy, while driving Gatsby's car, causes a fatal accident by which the mistress of her husband Tom, Myrtle Wison, gets killed, Jay begins to feel dark premonitions. George Wilson, the cheated and lovesick husband of Myrtle, swears revenge for the death of his beloved wife. When seeking the supposed murderer, Tom Buchanan sends him to his rivale Jay Gatsby, the owner of the car. A fatal finale occurs. Gatsby is executed by George. Afterwards Wilson shoots himself to escape the penalty and be to with his beloved wife. In order to understand the plot in the light of today it is necessary to consider the background of that short epoch. The shock of the 20s, which brings a whole generation to ruin, in which role models change and regular habits cannot be found, where morals and humanity must get lost in the new world without future for those who cannot ride the wave. Here lies become truth and truth lies. A world of glitter and illusion, which changes the dream from dishwasher to millionair into a comedy. In a world where suddenly everything seems possible and yet in reality not achievable, where limitations are present yet nobody wants to and can see them, especially such introverted and sensitive people like Jay, who swings in his inner dichotomy between a dreaming romantic and megalomenic and yet more lonely neurotic . For him there opens up a brief glance into a new, other world. The almost schizophrene way, to live deep inside with contrasts and yet to act outwardly in the opposite way, this reflects in the scenes of the actors in each character. Greed and exploitation of values, feelings and morals become a balancing act between poor and rich, above and below, being and non-being, between life and death. In this balancing act without net Jay Gatyby falls far and deep, into a whole without bottom, without end, just as likewise the society

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